Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-11-05
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The University of Kings college, Windsor,
n. S., is tho oldest Of all tho British North
American colleges. Tho royal charter under
which it was founded in 17SS explicitly pro-
vidcs that its academcal habits shall be the
same as those OF tho University Of Oxford.
And its cnceuia is conducted every year with
all the pomp and circumstance of IN Oxford
cnccnia The Rev. DR.. Isaac Brock, Oxon.,
is the President.
! A lawyer in Colmar, who defended some
Alsatians of Turckem against tho charge of
having sung the "MarscillaiSs,n got three
weeks imprisonment for his plea, the precise
punishment that his. clients received for their
song. Lawyers fees at this rate will soon be
Very high i'll Alsace.
Not long ago the secretary Of New York
club received an application from II pompous
member for permission to hang up his family
tree in the library, he graciously proposing to
present it to the club. The secretary took 1t
upon himself to decline the kind offer.
H. NJ. Stanley, writing from the Congo,
complains bitterly of tho refusal of the mis-
slonaries to assist his expedition. Ho Sums
them up thus: "Faith they may have in
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hopAthey no doubt live
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slightest trace"
It is announced that state prison convicts
in Minnesota will soon start new weekly
paper in the interest of the prison library
fund. 1t is to bc called Tho Prison Mirror.
Que prisoner will he editor i'll chief and
another will be treasurer and business mana
ger.
1t is pretty we'll known how very particu-
lar the Prince OF Wales is as to his personal
appearance, and thn5 it is u source of great
annoyance to him that no restorative has yet
been found that can call back into growth, if
not all abundant crop, at least an aftermath
OF hair
A birds head dinner party was unique
entertainment in Paris. Each guest had u
coilruro representing the head Of q bird, an
owl, turtle dove and other birds. Tho most
elegant was TINT of a peacock, with crest,
represented by an aigrette in diamonds, cmer-
aids and sapphires.
1t is announced in The Louisville Courier
Journal that Mr.. Henry Watterson has been
directed by his physician to cancel all his en-
gayements for public speaking in the Ken-
lucky campaign.
queen NlctOrla recently SlepI Ill camp at
Aldershot, which was her first camping ex-
perience since the return of the English
troops from tue Crimean war.
Tho day the postal treaty with Mexico
went into effect leading St. Louis citizens
sent President Daz q shaving outfit and Mrs,
Diaz on elegant feather fan.
Sarah .Althea HILL who obtained consider
able notoriety by suing ex-senator Sharon
for divorce some three years ago, has pur-
chased mine in southern Arizona.
Mrs. Ole Bull has been chaperoning party
Of young people from Cambridge, Mass, on
blackboard journey through the White
mountains.
James Long,treet, Jr., son Of Gen. James
Longstreet, is in Springfield, Mass. He is
engaged to work for the United States Geo
logical society.
Blondin, OF tight rope fame, willreturn to
this country next summer after an absence of
over twenty years.
Oscar Wilde has become editor Of London
journal, and no longer poses as the leader of
esthetcisni.
Millionaire Cogswell hns invested 100000
in granite tomb for himself, to be erected
in San Francisco cemetery.